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admin: First posted on 2016 08 31
Kludgemaster, 2016 08 31: I needed a multi-track recorder for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but there is no release of Audacity available yet so I tried Orinj and it works.
I am sharing my install notes to help others that want to run it on Ubuntu.
First, you'll need java since it is not available on Ubuntu by default.
To install java, click on the search computer icon at the top left type terminal and click the terminal icon. This opens the command line
type the following and hit enter
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre
You'll be prompter for you password just type it in.
java will install.
Now, download the zip. You will be prompted to open it with package manager. go ahead and open it.
extract the file to your home directory. Orinj has too many parent directories in the zip so you will end up with something like /home/Orinj/Orinj/orange as the directory that contains the software.
I am sure the directory structure will be cleaned up in the next release :)
If you are like most people you probably just want to click on the orange.jar file from the UI to run the program. One last step needed to make that happen. type the following command to make the jar file executable.
chmod u+rwx orange.jar
Now you can run the jar
/home/Orinj/Orinj/orange/orange.jar by clicking on it in the file navigator.
The orinj installation could be made simpler on Ubuntu but it took about 10 minutes for me and works great.
mic, 2016 09 13: Thanks. I just extracted the zip installation of Orinj (on Windows, latest version). It extracts to "Orinj2.6.0/Orinj/orange/...". This is too deep. I'll change it on the next release.
"Orinj2.6.0" is definitely unnecessary. You can move everything one folder up. "Orinj" should also be unnecessary, but I haven't tested enough to be sure. I am now running Orinj (on Windows) under "C:/orange/orange.jar" and it seems to work, including effect presets, loop sample files, sample loops, and sample MIDI files.
mic, 2016 09 19: Kludgemaster also reports problems in Ubuntu with loading effect presets and loop samples. This happens because Orinj expects that its working folder is the same folder in which orange.jar resides. Thus, for example, you can double-click on orange.jar to open Orinj, but Ubuntu may run Orinj with a different working folder (e.g., where Java resides). Orinj then will not be able to find the "presets" and "samples" folders of its installation. Alternatively, you can open a terminal and switch to the folder with orange.jar and call "java –jar orange.jar". In this case, Orinj should be able to find the "presets" and "samples" folders.
This will be changed in the next version of Orinj so that you can safely run it by double-clicking on the orange.jar file.
mic, 2016 09 21: The working directory issue was fixed with Orinj version 2.6.1, which was uploaded here on 2016 09 21.
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